We’re delighted to announce that legendary Gospel and Soul artist Candi Staton, famed for her disco hits ‘You Got The Love’ and ‘Young Hearts From Free’ has been confirmed as the presenter for our BBC Radio 2 documentary ‘How Sweet The Sound: The Amazing Grace Story’.

How Sweet The Sound will tell the story of the song ‘Amazing Grace’ and its composer John Newton. Other artists taking part in the programme include The Blind Boys of Alabama, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger and many more. The documentary will be broadcast on the UK’s most listened to radio station, BBC Radio 2 this March.

This Wednesday Night sees the return of Channel 4′s acclaimed comedy and current affairs programme 10 O’ Clock Live with Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Laure Laverne and David Mitchell discussing the past seven days.

Following the iTunes chart topping success of the inaugural series, we’ll be producing a weekly audio only version of the programme available to download from iTunes and the Channel 4 website every Thursday.

For the duration of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival we’ll be producing a special edition of the Dave Weekly every week day. Throughout the festival, we’ll be based at Dave’s very own curry house in the heart of the action and catching up with the likes of Greg Davies, Richard Herring, Rhod Gilbert and many more.

The Daily specials begin on 6th Feb and have been selected as a showcase feature on the the iTunes store homepage. Tune in here http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-dave-weekly/id458044498

UKTV Channel, Good Food asked us to produce a series of online videos to seed across social networking sites in support of the launch of their new series, The Roux Legacy.

The Roux family are one the most influential names in the British culinary world and the ten part series follows Albert, Michel Roux Snr, Alain and Michel Jnr in the kitchens of The Waterside Inn, which remains the only UK restaurant to retain three Michelin stars for more than 25 years, and Le Gavroche in London’s Lower Sloane Street.

Our series of ten online videos give an exclusive insight into what to expect from the series and will be seeded across the Good Food website, Facebook and Twitter.

WPP owned agency, Spafax wanted original comedy audio content to appeal to the complete range of passengers on board all British Airways long haul flights.

We devised a monthly ‘pick and mix’ concept that showcases the best in new original comedy, licensing inflight friendly compilations of the most successful in comedy podcasts and internet radio shows.

Pick of the Comedy Podcasts is currently available to listen to on all British Airways Long Haul flights and includes the best bits of programmes such as The Sony Award Winning, ‘Answer Me This!’,  Comedy Central’s ‘Utter Shambles’, Mitch Benn’s Music Podcast, Chortle’s Peacock and Gamble and The Absolute Peach.

Channel 4 News asked us to produce an audio only version of this Dispatches: Landlords From Hell special aimed at increasing the online reach of the programme and providing a ‘listen again’ opportunity for a worldwide audience.

The podcast achieved the no 1 position on the iTunes News & Politics podcast chart as well as front page editorial on the UK iTunes store.

Click above to listen to a short sample or you can listen to the podcast in its entirety here.

Well to say we’re pretty chuffed is an understatement. Today iTunes released their Rewind 2011 list of the best music, apps and podcasts of the year.

2 Pixiu productions have been selected in the list including Best New Comedy Podcast for The Dave Weekly and best new News & Politics podcast for Unreported World. You can see the full list on the iTunes store homepage – we’re off for a glass of something bubbly!

This Monday Jon Snow is back with another edition of the Channel 4 Dispatches special on Landlords From Hell as part of Channel 4′s Great British Property Scandal series.

We’ll be releasing a free podcast version of the documentary to download from iTunes and the Channel 4 website straight after the television transmission at 20:30 on Mon 5th December.

We were joined by comedy legend John Cleese on the latest edition of The Dave Weekly to talk about his brand new Alimony tour and DVD, as well as growing up in Weston Super Mare, nearly being called John Cheese and of course a bit of Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.

The Dave Weekly has been attracting other comedy favourites over the past few weeks with recent guests including Stephen Merchant, Tim Vine, Chris Addison and Sean Locke. Catch up with all of these and more on the Dave website and iTunes.

Channel 4 asked us to create a catch up opportunity for their new comedy and current affairs programme that would increase the online impact and reach of 10 O’ Clock Live.

We produced a weekly audio only version of the Thursday night Live show that was available to download every Friday morning.

The 10 O’ Clock Live podcast was the most downloaded podcast to date of 2011 spending eight weeks on the top of the iTunes chart and achieving more than 900,000 downloads.